Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rye_ergot

1 sense of rye ergot

Sense 1
rye ergot -- (a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium)
       => ergot, Claviceps purpurea -- (a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid)